As president , but warning against taking them out on an arbitrary time line next year. The president announcing today that he would keep nearly 10,000 troops in the region until october 2016 and then cut back to 5,500 in early 2017. In a statement the majority leader said the decision to reduce troop numbers should be left to the next president. You can read more here at the washington examiner. Weve heard from the chair of the Armed Services committee, who released a statement saying given the troubling conditions on the ground in afghanistan and the other Security Problems in the region keeping 9,800 troops through at least 2016 is necessary for our security interests. You can also hear the president s announcement for yourself in its entirety and well have it at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time over on cspan. Known as the city of good neighborhoods, this weekend our cspan cities tour joined by Time Warner Cable explores the history and literary life of buffalo wrarks new york, on become tv
And that relationship that we have with canada has enabled us to truly be able to provide Aerospace Control and maritime warning. That relationship is critical to the security of the United States and canada. Both our countries benefit from that against existential threats. That relationship that we have with canada is a model that is worthy of emulating. But a an Aerial Threat over the poles is not the only threat that north america faces. The Security Landscape is evolving. And north america faces a threat from the south. Now our threat from the south is not presently an existential threat but it is a Security Threat nonetheless and this threat that is transnational in nature exploits seams between countries. Its an organized threat. It is a networked threat. It is agile. Its adaptive and it can reach the point to where it actually destabilizes regions and it can also challenge sovereignty. So we broadly describe that threat as transnational organized crime. Now this threat enters th
And from a safety or a human rights perspective, the migration of unaccompanied children. So supporting mexicos southern border strategy is in our National Interest in the United States. Because the threats that mexico sees on their southern border, if not checked, we see then on our southwest border. So were working with mexico to provide a cooperative plan that supports the implementation of their strategy. And in the near term were focusing on providing them with some needed capabilities like biometrics or Tactical Communications and in the long term were working on helping build sustainable capacities that will improve what were terming as regional interoperability, enhancing equipment commonality between our forces so we can Work Together. Theres a leadership role that mexico can play in the region to address this kind of a threat and that is something that we are seeking to foster. And what we consider to be a very historical event, weve had the leaders in the staffs from the tri
Establishment. I represent, i hope, ordinary americans and, by the way, who are not all that enamoured with the establishment. I dont think it was particularly progressive to vote against the brady bill five times. I dont think it was progressive to give gun owners immunity or vote against ted kennedys immigration reform. Rose then the 50th super bowl between the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos and who better to talk to than jim nantz of cbs sports. You know, they changed coaches which means they changed schemes and went from being a task heavy, shotgunbased offense where were going to dink and dunk and occasionally beat you down the field a little deeper than you expected through the passing game. Now they wanted to go physical and gary kubiak came back to denver. Hes a great coach. They were going to learn to dominate the line of scrimmage and be primarily a team that pounded you. To clayton had to change what his whole career would be like and it didnt click till he came ba
Cabinet members sign the blind pledge. She also talked about how important the soldier was to the outcome of the election. Election. N the 1864 this talk was part of a symposium hosted by the emerging civil war blog. All right, i am not going to adjust the microphone, because we spent some time getting it adjusted for meg. I apologize if i look like i am hunched over. [laughter] i hate to stereotype, but i am sure that meg looks like a mildmannered middle school math teacher. Ironically that is exactly what , she is. [laughter] as she has educated by day, by night she has been working on her degree in military history. She is just about to wrap up her masters degree. In one of the most courageous acts i have seen from anybody, basically she is reinventing herself. It has been a great adventure for her to discover the American Civil War from the perspective of a serious scholar, but also from the perspective of somebody who is loved it nearly four dearly for years. It is my pleasure to